Historical notes

These weapons are featured on Wargaming's imagining of what the completed "super-Akizuki" class (Kitakaze) might have looked like. Historically, the 40 mm Bofors was overwhelmingly an Allied weapon, though Japan did attempt to copy examples captured from the British during the Battle of Singapore, resulting in the Type 5 (1945). However, the "Type 98" designation of this weapon would imply a design year of 1938, well before this historical event.